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Mosstrooper   Listen
noun
Mosstrooper  n.  One of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly infested the border country between England and Scotland; so called in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border country.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Mosstrooper" Quotes from Famous Books



... Islington and was inclined to be bumptious about it. Arion, tossing his delicately modelled Greek head, and peering furtively after bogies in the adjacent shrubbery. Captain Winstanley's well-seasoned hunter, Mosstrooper, nodding his long bony head, and swaying his fine-drawn neck up and down in a half-savage half-scornful manner, as if he were at war with society in general, like ...
— Vixen, Volume II. • M. E. Braddon



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